This Week’s Reference News Round-Up

Good day butter lambs! It’s the end of a long week and I’m celebrating by kicking up my heels and digging in to the wordy news of the week. Have a great weekend and enjoy these articles.

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Story of the week:

Merriam-Webster is Watching “Metal”Metal has been a noun in good standing since the 13th century, and has been used attributively for most of that time, but as these examples show, these days it’s acting like a full-on adjective.

Van Containing 1830s Johnson’s Dictionaries Stolen in Norwich
Police have warned people against buying a pair of 19th Century dictionaries which were in a van which was stolen. The Johnson’s dictionaries, which are worth about £300, date back to the 1830s and were in a delivery van which was stolen in Aylesbury Close, Norwich. Norfolk Police said they were “not the sort of thing you see every day.”

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